A few hard-hitting Sarah Palin-themed jokes Tina Fey told during her acceptance of the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor last week were curiously omitted from the ceremony’s broadcast on PBS this past Sunday, RadarOnline.comhas learned.

Fey’s dead-on impressions of the politician during the summer and fall of 2008 on Saturday Night Live have her closely associated with the Alaskan governor-turned-reality star.

Fey, accepting the prize last Tuesday, joked that “the success of Sarah Palin and women like her is good for all women – except, of course those who will end up, you know, like, paying for their own rape ‘kit ‘n’ stuff. But for everybody else, it’s a win-win. Unless you’re a gay woman who wants to marry your partner of 20 years – whatever.

“All kidding aside, I’m so proud to represent American humor, I am proud to be an American, and I am proud to make my home in the ‘not real’ America,” she said. “And I am most proud that during trying times, like an orange [terror] alert, a bad economy or a contentious election that we as a nation retain our sense of humor.”

Executive producer Peter Kaminsky told The Washington Post “it was not a political decision” to leave the jokes out of the broadcast, explaining time constraints forced almost 20 minutes of material to the cutting room floor.